On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 08:49:16AM +0100, Richard Foley said: > UK programmers are half the cost of US programmer? Wow, and I thought all the > IT jobs were moving to India! > > Maybe it's time to move back to the UK, where the beer is warm and the girls > are...
That's not implausible. A good but junior programmer in San Francisco is generally looking at a 100K USD salary which equates to about 65K UKP. Unless things have changed since I left London that would be high for a junior. Senior developers are looking at between 120K-150K USD if not more.